{"product_id":"9780226172521","title":"Feminist Practices: Signs on the Syllabus","description":"\u003cp\u003eA classroom resource for instructors that includes full syllabi and teaching modules, \u003ci\u003eFeminist Practices\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to anyone who teaches in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.  \u003ci\u003eFeminist Practices\u003c\/i\u003e is intended for use in classrooms and to spark creative ideas for teaching a diverse array of topics.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What makes a practice feminist? What is at stake in claiming the feminist label? Whether within a university context or in larger national and global ones, feminist projects involve challenging established relations of power (critique), envisioning alternative possibilities (theory), and employing activism to change social relations. By taking diverse forms of feminist practice as its focal point, this course reader investigates how to study the complexity of women’s and men’s lives in ways that take race, gender-power, ethnicity, class, and nationality seriously. \u003ci\u003eFeminist Practices\u003c\/i\u003e also shows how the production of such feminist knowledge challenges long-established beliefs about the world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Topics covered include\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e • Gendered labor,\u003cbr\u003e • Commercialization of sexuality and reproduction,\u003cbr\u003e • Love and marriage in the twenty-first century,\u003cbr\u003e • Violence against women,\u003cbr\u003e • Varieties of feminist activism, and\u003cbr\u003e • Women’s leadership and governance.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFeminist Practices\u003c\/i\u003e draws upon articles published in \u003ci\u003eSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society\u003c\/i\u003e to explore the nature of feminist practices in the twenty-first century and the range of issues these practices address. Organized thematically the collection captures the complexity of a global movement that emerges in the context of local struggles over diverse modes of injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47120093741296,"sku":"9780226172521","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226172521_p0.jpg?v=1763674307","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226172521","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}